On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Jan Kurik wrote:
The use of the "--as-needed" flag allows the linker to avoid linking extra libraries in a binary. This not only improves startup times (as the loader does not have to load all the libraries for every step) but might avoid the full initialization of big frameworks.
This might reduce auto-generated dependencies, too, right? Generally that's a good thing, but of course there's always the off chance that something that someone expects to be there because it was always pulled into an install by a dep now won't be....